Word: silva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva finally got his Distinguished Flying Cross last week, and everybody in the U.S. Army Air Force in Australia was pleased. Soup is a 47-year-old gunner from California, who has been in the Air Force since 1928. Many are the tales of his shooting, his handling of the green young gunners in his care, the respect in which mere officers hold...
...TIME fumbled its pictures. The one printed with the Dec. 2 story was a photograph of Dr. Francisco Luiz da Silva Campos, Minister of Interior and Justice of Brazil. Herewith, a photograph of the real Jimmy Marshall...
...audience liked better the slinky, tuneful, banal choros and dances which were played by gourd-rattling Romeo Silva and his orchestra, familiar to many a visitor to the New York World's Fair. It liked better still a tall, dark soprano, Elsie Houston, who in a green dress looked and sounded like some jungle bird...
...Lisbon well before sailing time with three cairn terriers and a Sealyham, 52 pieces of luggage, a portable sewing machine, golf clubs, four wicker crates of old Madeira and port wines, and a 1940 limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid 40 minutes late, rolled...
...bigger slice of Allied business-especially of finished petroleum products, since France's refineries are now in Nazi hands. One Western Hemisphere producer knew for sure that it had lost a market when Italy entered the war. Soon after Mussolini had made his radio speech, Jesus Silva Herzog, No. 1 oil salesman of Mexico, announced that Mexican shipments of oil to Italy (15,000 barrels daily under contract) had stopped...